Variety is reporting that David Dastmalchian and Hiam Abbass have joined the cast of Alcon Entertainment's upcoming Blade Runner sequel. Details on their roles are being kept under wraps.
The pair join a cast headlined by Harrison Ford (Star Wars: The Force Awakens) & Ryan Gosling (The Nice Guys) with a supporting cast that includes Robin Wright (Wonder Woman), Dave Bautista (Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2), Ana de Armas (Knock Knock), Sylvia Hoeks (The Lake), Carla Juri (Morris From America), Mackenzie Davis (The Martian), and Barkhad Abdi (Captain Phillips).
The BAFTA-nominated Denis Villeneuve (Sicario) is directing with a script from Michael Green (Wolverine 3) & Hampton Fancher (Blade Runner). Not much is known about the film's plot, but it's been said that the sequel will be set several decades after the 1982 original with Ford returning as Rick Deckard.
Dastmalchian is best known to comic book movie fans for his role as Kurt in Marvel Studios' Ant-Man and as one of the Joker's deranged henchmen in Christopher Nolan's masterpiece The Dark Knight, which coincidentally was also his acting debut. He also previously worked with Villeneuve on the Hugh Jackman/Jake Gyllenhaal-starrer Prisoners. Abbass is best known for her role in the Steven Spielberg's Munich and Ridley Scott's Exodus: Gods and Kings.
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Blade Runner 2 hits theaters October 6, 2017